Walter Gropius built the internationally known movement and art school known as the Bauhaus between the years 1919 and 1928. This new institution was born by combining two fledging schools: the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts with the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts. In this new academy all media were regarded as acceptable as Gropius sought to…

What is an artist-teacher (or teaching artist)? Is it someone who practices a dual profession or is it something more, perhaps a philosophy of teaching? George Wallis, a nineteenth-century artist and teacher, introduced the earliest known use of the term when defending his educational practices at the Manchester School of Design in 1845 (Wallis,…